Newcastle TV Ratings week 40
8Oct07

The NRL Grand Final always ensures NBN a huge audience and this year was no exception with the game and entertainment for Grand Final dominating this weeks ratings.

Most watched programs

1    Rugby League Grand Final    NBN    166000
2    Rugby League Grand Final Presentation    NBN    120000
3    Rugby League Grand Final Entertainment    NBN    108000
4    City Homicide    PRIME    97000
5    NBN Evening News Sunday    NBN    96000
6    A Current Affair    NBN    92000
7    NBN Evening News Monday to Friday    NBN    92000
8    The Force    PRIME    92000
9    Dancing With The Stars 7    PRIME    85000
10    Sea Patrol    NBN    82000

To put things in perspective the next 3 regular programs were

11 Border Security PRIME 79000
12 NBN News Saturday 78000
13 McLeods Daughters NBN and Ghost Whisperer PRIME 67000

Therefore, excluding the NRL Grand Final the honors were fairly even between NBN and Prime for the week. It will be interesting to see the results now that Rugby league is over.

Station ratings

            Week 40 2007    Week 40 2006    Prog 2007    Prog 2006
NBN            35.7                37.9                34.6                37.1
PRIME        26.7                20.5                24.9                22.1
TEN            17.1                18.1                18.3                19.1
ABC            14.8                17.1                16.2                16.1
SBS            5.6                    6.3                5.9                   5.6

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